Stephanie Allain, known most notably for her role as producer to Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan, will be taking the helm as director of the LA Film Festival. She succeeds Rebecca Yeldham, who voluntarily left her position for personal reasons. Stephanie will be working closely with Festival Managing Director Gloria Campbell and Festival [...]

The South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival and Music Convention is less than two months away! The festival is charging ahead with its release of its all-star panel list, featuring familiar faces across several industries. Here is the released list, which is sure to have at least one face for every interest group: Renowned chef [...]

Oren Peli, director of Paranormal Activity which played at the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival, sits down with Slamdance to discuss resourcefulness in filmmaking. Paranormal Activity takes the cake for low risk, high reward films with a budget of $11,000 that yielded a following and payout of over $500 million. Surely, if anyone has the insight [...]

After seeing an interesting article by Reuters who sat down with John Cooper, director/chief programmer of the Sundance Film Festival, a few things crossed my mind when considering how the phenomenon of Sundance as well as other festivals projects onto the many tones of the film industry. When asked how he felt the relationship between [...]

The YouTube venture into the film festival arena, Your Film Festival, will accept submissions of short films (less than 15 minutes) from February 2, 2012 – March 31, 2012. The fifty semi-finalists will be chosen by Scott Free Productions. The contest presents a great opportunity for creative minds everywhere as the genre can be of [...]

Film critic and journalist Marshall Fine writes about movies at the website Hollywood & Fine (www.hollywoodandfine.com). He serves as freelance film/TV critic for Star magazine. The Huffington Post takes a great look at the daunting task of Sundance in this piece by Marshall Fine, as the grand festival is creeping up on us all. Continuing [...]

The Miami International Film Festival is a month or so off but there’s no reason to not be pumped for all the cinematic action coming your way! With scheduling by Festival Genius, MIFF has released its full film lineup today along with the ability to sign up for pre and post festival parties/events! Visit the [...]

The Sundance Institute has released its list of jury members for this year’s Sundance Film Festival, running from January 19, 2012 – January 29, 2012. Here is the list, with biographies of each jury member: U.S. DOCUMENTARY JURY Fenton Bailey Fenton Bailey made his Sundance Film Festival debut in 1998 with the documentary Party Monster. [...]

The elusive Short Film list from Sundance has finally been funneled out from over 7,000 submissions. Here is the comprehensive list from Sundance Institute of each film and its significant details.

The Festival and Stagnation The film festival has become something of a homunculous in that the shapes, sizes and breadth of them never settle into one constant state.